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Stanford and Beyond

Legal Planet

For example, the Department of Conservation Biology and Ecology is in the School of Life Sciences. However, a description of the School stresses its leadership role on campus: “If climate is part of the curricula and research programs of so many parts of Columbia, you might ask “Why do we need a climate school?”

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PA Solar Center Hosts March 17 Webinar On Opportunities For PA In Solar Supply Chain, Solar Recycling And Reuse

PA Environment Daily

Solar panels have a useful life of 30 years or more, so the solar installed today will last past 2050 and the solar installed in the early 2000s is almost ready for replacement. Greg Vitali Named Majority Chair Of House Environmental Committee; House Appoints Committee Members [PaEN] -- Rep. Related Articles: -- Rep.

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6 Ways STEM Educators Can Enhance Student Engagement in Our Democracy

Union of Concerned Scientists

Use simple reminders and don’t schedule major classwork on election days Amid a busy STEM student life, filled with due dates, exams, and lab reports, other responsibilities such as deciphering when, where, and how to vote can easily slip students’ minds, or not even be on their radar at all.

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A Self Evaluation of My Two Years Directing the Johns Hopkins 21st Century Cities Initiative

Environmental and Urban Economics

This Initiative is housed in the Krieger Arts & Sciences School but is meant to be an umbrella organization bringing together all of the far flung scholars across the University. During my brief time at Hopkins, I tried to bring an old school University of Chicago Economics mindset to the campus. Point taken.

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A most improbable physicist: how Hakeem Oluseyi survived a troubled early life and went on to succeed in physics

Physics World

In A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars , co-written with science writer Joshua Horwitz , Oluseyi tells the story of his life using the analogy of quantum tunnelling : “My life has been an oscillatory pattern of passing through walls.” 2021 Ballantine Books, Penguin Random House $28hb 368pp.

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PA Solar Center Honors 25 Organizations For Leadership In Clean, Renewable Solar Energy From Allegheny County

PA Environment Daily

Combined, they are expected to avoid 110 million pounds of CO2 emissions over their 35-year operating life. That is why 100% of our electricity has been provided by renewable sources since 2005 and the three net-positive energy buildings on our campus are powered entirely by solar energy generated on-site.

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In the wake of the latest dire climate report, how do we keep moving forward?

Enviromental Defense

Attached is a screenshot of a headline about the IPCC Report, with a picture of a forest burning near houses. And combined with an indestructible love for life and all living beings, it allows me to wake up every morning feeling energized and ready to act. It’s a friend from University.